Necktie engaging collar



Patented Mar. 16, 1943 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE N ECKTIE ENGAGING COLLAR Joseph P. Wilson, Columbia, S. 0.

Application August 2, 1940,Serial No. 349,499

4 Claims.

This invention relates to wearing appareLparticularly collars, either attached to or detachable from a shirt and has as it principal object the prOVision of novel means contained on a collar or the like whereby a commercial necktie operable with said collar may be elevated to and. desirably positioned at the top of the neckband junction or crotch on said collar by the usual manual movement of said necktie on said collar during the usual operation preceding and ending with positioning of the knot adjacent or against the front collar holding button while said collar and necktie are customarily positioned on the wearers neck portion. Said novel means provides, incidentally, a desirable reinforcement of said collar at needed points. Other objects, novel aspects and desirable gains of the invention are encompassed in the various details of construction, arrangement and procedure of operation of the members of. the illustrative embodiment set forth in detail herein, all of which will become apparent as the description proceeds in the light of the annexed drawing-in which: I

Fig. 1 illustrates a collar attached to a shirt, the flap of said collar having been raised vertically from its normal position o that the necktie elevating, positioning and collar reinforcement means may be clearly seen.

Fig. 2 illustrates a necktie with the center portion of the longitudinal structure broken away, the opposing ends of said necktie being shown along with the seam, which in commercial neckties extends longitudinally from end to end in the rear center of its elevation.

Fig. 3 illustrates a normal collar and necktie assembly, a four-in-hand necktie being nominally knotted and made ready to be drawn into normal wearing position against the collar.

General statement of construction and operation-Referring to Fig. 1: Protuberant members 5, 6, I, 8, 9 and ID are positioned on the outer surface of the neckband structure I in a manner divergent to the elevational and longitudinal degrees of said structure with said members diverging upwardly from the bottom portion .IA of said structure and with said members starting their upward divergence from the (left hand end) buttonhole portion and commencing with the member 5 and continuing. in spaced sequence alongthe longitudinal structure to and including the member I positioned oppositely at the (right hand end) button portion of said structure, there being a greater plurality of said members at said button end portion, viz. memhers I, 8, 9 and I0, than that contained on said buttonhole end portion, viz. members 5 and 6. Said button end portion members 5 and 6 bein of shorter length and more inclined to the vertical in their said divergence than are the said members contained on the said buttonhole end portion of said structure, thus, when a necktie, drawn from left to right normally, is introduced into engagement with said members, and, starting with initial member 5, said moving necktie is induced into a starting rise toward the crotch I2, said rising movement being accelerated and completed by later engagement with the sharper inclined members on the button end portion of said structure. A member II is positioned substantially in the center of the longitudinal and elevational degrees of the collar flap 4, said member II being divergent to both said degrees, with said divergence starting near the flap bottom portion 4C and extending upwardly to near the crotch I2, thus, when said flap 4 is in normal position for use the said flap member II is positioned as indicated in outline on the neckband I in Fig. 1, thus, when said necktie body I4 is engaged on its front surface by said member II, said necktie body I4 being drawn along the said neckband I, extra engaging pressure is imposed on the adjoining neckband members 6 and I by the necktie shoulder I1 and the necktie rear body, resulting in desired extra necktie elevatin at said point, as it will be noted in Fig. 3 that the crotch I2 portion located at the longitudinal center of the collar construction is higher at said point than the crotch I2 portions located at either end adjacent the buttonhole 2 and button 3. Said protuberant members 5 to H in this embodiment are raised sewing machine formed stitches sewn through the neckband I andflap 4 fabrics. Said stitches are protuberant as shown for necktie engagement on the desired side of said fabrics and the said stitches lay fiat, desirably, on the reverse side of said fabrics. Detailed operation.R.eferring to Fig. 3: The end portion I6 of the necktie I4 is introduced, face out, between the normally positioned collar neckband I and flap 4 at collar point 43, said necktie I4 being then drawn all the Way around the neckband I, Fig. 1, with emergence of said necktie end I6 at collar point 4A, said necktie end I6 being continued outwardly to a proper length stance with necktie end I5 for forming the knot I8. When said necktie I4 is so drawn around the neckband I to said stance, the necktie shoulder I1 (Fig. 2) and the adjacent rear MA did rest at the bottom neckband edge IAv at a time that the collar and necktie bodies were in the relation shown in Fig. 3, nevertheless, when the knot i8 is drawn in and positioned against or adjacent the collar button 3 there would be suificient moving necktie engagement with the said members 5 to I! to elevate said necktie l4 snugly into the crotch i2, all around the collar inner surface, aforesaid. When said necktie comes to rest after said engagement, the said members 5 to H serve to position and hold said necktie against sagging or undue movement.

From the construction and operation of the invention as herein set forth, many general advantages will be seen and further implied.

- It is further made known that the collar flap structure may contain a plurality of longitudinally spaced necktie engaging and reinforcing members if the flat laying stitches or fastening means appearing on the sight or outside surface of said flap are not considered objectionable over and above the one such flat laying stitch contained on the rear center of the flap, i-nconspicuously.

It will be recognized that when a collar is positioned normally on a wearer's neck portion, that the back of said collar is normally higher, by about 30 degrees, than is the front portion of said collar, thus, it is manifest that when the end portions of any necktie, contained normally by said collar, are drawn as high as possible in the front collar crotch portions, that the middle rear portion of said contained necktie can rise no higher than the level of the said necktie end portions contained at the top of said collar front crotch portions, there bein before my invention, no ready means provided r for elevating a necktie so that the same would rest snugly all around in the crotch. portion of said collar, or, that followed the crotch contour. of said collar, or, that prevented the collar from vbeing put in an awry stance due to the uneven constriction of the necktie on the collar neckband, thereby detracting from the dressy only the protuberant member high spots in the neckties traverse around the neckband exterior and flap interior with an avoidance of contact with the greater base surfaces thereof, it is obvious that less necktie pull is required, as friction is minimized thereby and if said minimized friction function be considered of prime importance over the other possessed functions or qualities, modification within the spirit and scope of the invention would admit of general friction avoidance on said base surfaces with a necktie engaging protuberance of any given form or substance arising suitably in bead or lengthier form from said base surfaces, thereby giving expression and function to the ball-bearing principle in a new and unused form. Applicant sought, in the herein set forth embodiment, to have the friction minimizing protuberant elementperform additional function in the reinforcement, elevating and setting of necktie as herein described, and, instead of the protuberant element being imposed on the finished or semifinished collar, a fabric or material may be utilized in which the protuberant element maybe woven or otherwise imposed in suitable friction minimizing form or design thereon for use on the necktie engaging surfaces of said collar.

The various advantages and objects of the invention may be accomplished by modification of the particular embodiment specifically set forth herein, and it is intended that the appended claims shall include all equivalent arrangements justly coming within their call.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to protect by Letters Patent is:

l. A collar having a neckband comprising inner and outer surfaces with top and bottom terminals thereto, anarranged upwardly slanting necktie elevating ridge on the outer surface of said neckband.

2. A collar having a neckband with an attached outer flap, said flap having inner and outer surfaces with top and bottom terminals thereto, anarranged upwardly slanting necktie elevating ridge on the inner surface of said flap. 3. A collar having a neckband and an attached outer flap with respective inner and outer surfaces and top and bottom terminals thereto, an arranged upwardly slanting necktie elevating ridge on the outer surface of said neckband, and an arranged upwardly slanting necktie elevating ridge on the inner surface of said flap.

4. A collar having a neckband with an attached outer flap, said neckband and flap have ing respective inner and outer surfaces with top and bottom terminals thereto, an arranged plurality 0f upwardly slanting necktie elevating ridges on the outer surface of said neckband, and an upwardly slanting ridge positioned on the middle portion of the inner surface of said flap.

JOSEPH P. WILSON. 

